Sarah, 34, along with her friend, Justin, inject heroin and smoke crack cocaine at the Overdose Prevention Ottawa site off St. Patrick Street in downtown Ottawa. Julie Oliver/PostmediaJulie Oliver / Postmedia

LAWLESS LAND

Whatever happened to obeying the law?

There are lots of laws that people don’t like but they still obey them.

If the pop-up injection site is illegal, why is it still operating? Liberal elites choose the laws they obey.

Quebec, across the river, part of Canada, has passed a law regarding face coverings. Mayor Jim Watson says OC Transpo drivers will be instructed not to obey this law.

So he is telling employees of the City of Ottawa not to obey the law of a legally elected democratic government.

I don’t like paying to park but I still obey the law. Maybe I should stop paying and cite the Watson way. If you don’t like a law, say it’s wrong and disobey it, and hope it changes.

Federal, provincial, municipal, all Liberal, they know better than us. Why even have laws, mayor?

ANDY ABBOTT HAWKESBURY(Point taken.)

NO FEELINGS

I loved a recent letter writer’s point about Justin Trudeau’s performance after the death of Gord Downie. Once again our PM proved to be better suited to stay as a drama teacher.

JAY POULOS OTTAWA(Well, everyone’s going to show some feeling sometimes.)

PM CAN’T CRY

Yes, a grown man can cry, but not a national leader of a country on public TV. A leader is supposed to command respect and give confidence to countrymen, not publicly embarass them.

On occasion, and when convenient, Jim Watson has said any law of the land should be followed and obeyed unless and until steps have been taken which would result in changes to any given law.

And yet Watson is telling us that he has directed that OC Transpo bus drivers should not follow Quebec’s Bill 62.

KEVIN SHEA OTTAWA(Politicians do enjoy having their cake and eating it too.)

MORNEAU SHOULD GO

So far we know Finance Minister Bill Morneau had an undisclosed chalet in France, did not put his financial holdings in a blind trust, has ties to Bombardier, a company his government gave $400 million to, and his company has pension plans with federal departments.

None of this passes any smell test and Morneau should do the right thing and step down. Without doing this he runs the risk of death by a thousands cuts as these daily new revelations surface.

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